Document Management Software for Law Firms
NetDocuments gives law firms a secure, matter-centric document management system built for legal from day one, so your team can find what they need, protect what matters, and enable AI to do more.
- Find any document in seconds across matters, emails, and versions
- Protect client data with security certifications built for legal compliance
- Build the document foundation that makes legal AI reliable
A Document Management System Built Specifically for Law Firms
NetDocuments is not a generic legal file management software adapted from a horizontal tool. It was designed from the ground up for the way law firms work and has served legal teams exclusively for 25+ years.
Matter-centric organization
Every document, email, and file lives where it belongs: organized by client and matter, not by who happened to save it last. Your law firm document management works the way legal practice does: by client, by matter, automatically.
Search that actually works
For law firms, document management is only as good as its search. NetDocuments delivers full-text search across your entire document repository, including email. Find the right version without digging through folder trees.
Security built for legal obligations
Ethical walls, granular permission management, data loss prevention, and SOC 2 / ISO-certified infrastructure. For law firm document management software, compliance is not an add-on. It is how the platform was built.
AI with context
NetDocuments introduced the industry's first legal context graph, connecting every matter, document, and communication into a single source of institutional knowledge. That's what makes AI trustworthy for legal work.
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Document Management
Get organized using the world’s #1 trusted cloud-native document management system built to help legal professionals do their best work.
- Easily find the documents you need
- Be confident the version you’re working on is the right one
- Manage, share, and collaborate on documents in a centralized, secure space
Legal AI Assistant
Getting started with generative AI for legal is easier than you think! Instead of digging through documents to find answers, let the NetDocuments Legal AI Assistant do the work for you!
- Ask questions of one or hundreds of documents and get instant reliable answers
- Use pre-built prompts with the click of a button
- Keep your information securely within the DMS
Microsoft Teams Integration
NetDocuments seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Teams, allowing you to manage, preview, and collaborate on documents using the tools you’re already familiar with.
- Access the documents you need without leaving Microsoft Teams
- Easily save details from a Teams chat to NetDocuments
- Experience a better way to collaborate
AI App Builder
Automate routine tasks, scale your practice, and see day-one value with the AI App Builder – always keeping your documents within the secure guardrails of the NetDocuments intelligent DMS.
- Create AI apps for your unique workflows
- Use our ready-to-go AI apps for legal use cases
- Access education and demos to ensure you get the most out of generative AI
Email Management
Stop sifting through mountains of emails and let NetDocuments help you automatically file email messages by client, matter, topic, and more.
- Tame your inbox
- Centralize all related files and discussions
- Find what you need faster
Document Bundling
Say goodbye to tedious hours spent labeling and organizing printed documents for closings, litigation support, and more with better, faster document compilation.
- Assemble document sets quickly and accurately
- Reduce your paper footprint
- Work securely without ever leaving your DMS
Customer Stories
See what customers are saying...
"Our documents are the firm's institutional knowledge. Embedding AI directly into that environment allows us to enhance how our lawyers work without having to move data outside of our secure ecosystem."
Jeff Westcott
Director of Innovation & AI, Akin
“When we made the move to the cloud, we didn’t just migrate. We stopped and evaluated everything. We chose the solution we believed in — not necessarily the one others were choosing.”
Cato Haukeland
Chief Digital Officer, SANDS
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FAQs
Does NetDocuments integrate with our practice management software?
NetDocuments integrates with many practice management systems including Clio, Caret Legal, and Centerbase. We integrate with over 150 systems including Microsoft 365, Teams, Copilot, and DocuSign. If you use a specific platform, ask during the demo and we will confirm compatibility directly.
Is NetDocuments secure enough for client-confidential documents?
NetDocuments holds SOC 2 Type II certification across security, privacy, and availability, plus ISO 27001, 27017, 27701, and 27018. Ethical walls, granular user permissions, and data loss prevention are built into the platform architecture. NetDocuments has been the document management system of choice for law firms for 25+ years, including firms operating under strict regulatory and client confidentiality requirements.
What size firm is NetDocuments law firm document management made for?
NetDocuments serves firms across the full spectrum from solo practitioners to Am Law 100 firms. The platform was built to scale with your firm, so you will not need to migrate to a different document management system as you grow.
What is the difference between document management and records management — and does NetDocuments handle both?
Document management covers how your firm creates, organizes, collaborates on, and retrieves active documents. Records management covers what happens to documents over time: retention schedules, disposition, and compliance with legal and regulatory obligations.
NetDocuments is a document management system (DMS), not a records management (RM) system, but it supports records management best practices directly within the platform. You can define retention and archiving policies, apply legal holds, securely delete files, and use a flexible metadata model that maps to your file plan or retention schedule.
For firms with more complex requirements — such as managing physical records or records across multiple systems — NetDocuments integrates with leading electronic records management providers so your documents and records workflows stay connected.
What should law firms look for when evaluating document management software?
When evaluating a document management system for law firms, the most important factors are legal specificity and AI integration. Generic document tools can store files, but they were not designed for matter-centric organization, ethical walls, or the compliance obligations specific to legal practice.
Also, ask how the platform handles context for AI. The firms getting the most value from legal AI aren't the ones with the most tools. They're the ones whose AI can draw on the full context of a matter, every document, communication, and prior dealing, rather than whatever happens to be uploaded in a single session. The DMS you choose today is the foundation that context will be built on.